Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed a proposal to speed up election results in Arizona and Republicans are outraged … and, I suspect, secretly delighted.

“VETOED,” the Arizona Republican Party proclaimed. “@GovernorHobbs could have done the right thing for Arizona by signing the bill to give our state same-day results. Instead, she showed yet again that she is nothing more than a radical partisan puppet masquerading as a governor. Republicans will remember this action, Governor …”

“The governor’s veto is a huge mistake,” Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, echoed. “This was a missed opportunity to increase voter confidence and reduce frustration on election night.”

It was also an opportunity for Republicans to slip a political mickey into the bill — one that would have forced the vast majority of Arizona voters to jump through a new hoop to get an early ballot.

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“This legislation effectively ends the Active Early Voting List, something that has nothing to do with faster election results, but disenfranchises voters by adding additional steps for the hundreds of thousands of Arizona voters who prefer to vote by mail,” Hobbs wrote in her veto message.

Make that millions of Arizona voters.

It’s a disappointing end to a

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